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”Making products or services available for free should
always be evaluated in an online business modeI”
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24.
According to Chris Anderson two economies
exist: the "atoms economy" where the price
of goods tends to increase in time (inflation)
and the "bits economy" where the price
tends to decrease (deflation).
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Globalization is the solitude of
the number one.
Preferential aggregation is one of
the rules of the net described by
the mathematician Barabasi.
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Kodak vs lnstag ram
people. After the bankruptcy, in February
2012, Kodak ceases production of
photographic equipment.
. Kodak employed up to 140 thousand
Instagram in the same sector in 2012
Q with 13 employees was bought for 1
billion dollars by Facebook.

47.
”Higher education will undergo a
transformation between now and 2020.
The 500-year-old university model will
change more in the next ten years than it
has in the Iast 100."
David Houle, Futurist

48.
Digital Revolution and Higher Education 1/2
The value of Online Learning.
51% of the college presidents surveyed say online courses
provide the same value.
The prevalence of Online Courses.
77% of college presidents report that their institutions now
offer online courses.
These courses are more prevalent in some sectors of higher
education than in others.
While 89% of four-year public colleges and universities offer
online classes.
Source: PEW — College Presidents Survey

49.
Digital Revolution and Higher Education 2I2
Online Students.
23% of college graduates report that they have taken a class online.
However, the share doubles to 46% among those who have graduated in
the past ten years. Among all adults who have taken a class online, 39%
say the format's educational value is equal to that of a course taken in a
classroom.
The Future of Online Learning.
College presidents predict substantial growth in online Iearning: 15% say
most of their current undergraduate students have taken a class online,
and 50% predict that 10 years from now most of their students will take
classes online.
Digital Textbooks. 62%
of college presidents anticipate that 10 years from now, more than half of
the textbooks used by their undergraduate students will be entirely digital.
Source: PEW - College Presidents Survey

50.
Edx Online Courses
EdX was founded by the MIT and Harvard University in May
2012. EdX hosts online university-level courses in a wide
range of disciplines to a worldwide audience at no charge.
EdX is nonprofit and runs on an open-source software
platform.
As of 22Ju| y 2014, EdX has more than 2.5 million users taking
over 215 courses online.
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53.
LESSONS OF THE GAME 1I2
- Development of tech start up financing
— Creation of areas for tech development on
the model of the US bay area
- Re-birth of an Italian tech world player
integrated with the public sector
- Attraction of tech people from abroad and
getting skilled emigrated people back

54.
LESSONS OF THE GAME 2I2
- Incentives to innovative companies to come to
Italy vs incentives to go away as for bureaucracy
- Laws to favour the development of new
technologies vs protection of lobbies and of the
status quo
- Fiscal policies to pro-technology (eg. an ebook
cannot be taxed more [22%] than a paper book
[4%])
- Introduction of the Digital School